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Programme

 

 

 

 

Friday, 3rd December

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:00

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9:00

 

Registration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00

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10:30

 

Panel Session 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:30

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10:45

 

Coffee & Tea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:45

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12:30

 

Greening of Policies: The Challenge of Climate Change (Chair: Klaus Jacob)

 

 

 

 

Helmut Keupp, Vice President, Freie Universität Berlin
address of welcome
 

 

 

 

 

Jürgen Trittin, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Berlin
Combating Climate Change and the Greening of German Energy Policy
 

 

 

 

 

Olivia Castillo, President of the Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production, APRSCP
Role of Business and Asian Countries in Climate Change Policies
paper
 

 

 

 

 

Richard Odingo, Vice Chairman of the IPCC; Department of Geography, University of Nairobi
Adapting to Climate Change in African Countries
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:30

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14:00

 

Lunchbreak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14:00

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15:30

 

Teaching Sustainable Development (Chair: Kirsten Jörgensen)

 

 

 

 

Klaus Jacob, Conference Chair, Environmental Policy Research Centre
Introduction to the Conference
 

 

 

 

 

Michael Maniates, Associate Professor of Political Science and Environmental Science at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania
Between Two Stories: Teaching and Learning at an Awkward Moment
 

 

 

 

 

Nicholas Ashford, Director, Technology and Law Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Major challenges to engineering education for sustainable development: what has to change to make it creative, effective, and acceptable to the established disciplines
paper
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15:30

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16:00

 

Coffee & Tea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16:00

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18:00

 

Panel Session 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

Saturday, 4th December

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8:00

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9:00

 

Registration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9:00

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10:30

 

Panel Session 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:30

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10:45

 

Coffee & Tea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:45

 

12:30

 

Governance, Institutions & Interlinkages (Chair: Frank Biermann)

 

 

 

 

Guy B. Peters, Maurice Falk Professor of American Government; Michigan State University, Pittsburgh
Horizontal Policy Management: Necessary but Difficult
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Frans Berkhout, Chair, IHDP-IT Scientific Steering Committee; Director, Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Environmental Policy Integration and Ecological Modernisation
 

 

 

 

 

Oran Young, Chair, IDGEC Scientific Steering Committee; Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California, Santa Barbara
Institutional Interplay: Achievements and Challenges

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:30

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14:00

 

Lunchbreak

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14:00

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15:45

 

The Greening of Liberal-Pluralist States: Process and Substance (Chair: Miranda Schreurs)

 

 

 

 

Martin Jänicke, Director, Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin
Greening of Government and the “Environmental State”
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William Lafferty, Director, Program for Research and Documentation for a Sustainable Society, ProSus, Oslo
Governmental initiatives for environmental policy integration: A further specification of benchmarks and normative standards
presentation
 

 

 

 

 

Andrew J. Jordan, Philip Leverhulme Prize Fellow, School of Environmental Sciences, UEA, Norwich
The Coordination of European Governance: The Administrative Challenge of Environmental Policy Integration.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15:45

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16:15

 

Coffee & Tea

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16:15

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18:00

 

Panel Session 4